Bag



May 1, 1923.

A. J. FARNSWORTH ET AL BAG Filed March 15. 1920 lnventor';

Patented May 1, 1923.

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ARTHUR J. FARN'SWORTH AND ETHELBERT ivi. CLAIRE, or snnrnnivorsoo,

CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNORS T W; s. BEACH, or sen FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

BAG.

\ Application filed March 15, 1920. Serial No. 366,047.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ARTHUR'J. FARNs- WORTH and ETI-IELBERT M. ST. CLAIRE, citizens of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and $tate of California, have invented a new and useful Bag, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in bags that are intended for suspension from supporting devices,and particularly to such bags when made of paper or other relatively weak or easily torn material; and our purpose is to provide a simple and inexpensive bag that can be suspended in such a manner that the weight of its contents will be sustained by its periphery.

The accompanying drawing is a perspec- Y tive view of a preferred form of our invention and illustrates the manner in which it is used in connection with a suitable supporting. device.

The sides of the bag ,1 have, at their upper edges, backwardly turned flaps 2 adapted for hanging upon the bag holding arms 3 of a supporting device, and for being retained in that position by means of suitable clamping devices or pressure bars such as shown at 1. In this manner the weight of the bag and its contents is distributed throughout the whole extent of its sides,

and a greater loading is permissible than if the active supporting material were of less extent.

a relatively large portion "of The upper corners of'the bag, where-the sides adjoin the ends, are slit downwardly fora distance as'shown at 5. This is done. to enable the bag holding arms 3 to rotate I slightly when the mouth of the bag is be- 40 ing opened or closed while in position on the supporting device. Otherwise the material of the bag would be distorted and might be ruptured by the rotation of the arms. Reinforcing patches 6" may he added to prevent the possible unintentional extension of slits 5.

A supporting device of the character here in indicated is fully described in U. S.

Patent No. 1,307,439,'issued to us June 24, f

1919. The present invention i was illus-- trated and described in said patent, but was 7 not claimed therein.

We claim:

leave an oblong opening in the top thereof, the material on two opposite sides. of the bag terminating in'ends extending beyond the ends of the other two sides to leave relatively long attaching flaps to be received by g a bracket 'For suspending the bag withthe opening therein held. wide open, the corners or" the bag adjacent said flaps being slit a short length of the corner folds, and

.patches attached to the bag sides around the corner folds to reinforce the folds at the termination of the slits.

ARTHUR J. FARNSWORTH. 'nT-nELBEnT s'r. CLAIRE. I

A relatively tall paper bag formed to 

